On 12/10/15 00:12, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
> On 10/12/2015 6:59 AM, Winnux wrote:
>> I have found a few users suggesting that echo "list clients" | bconsole is
>> an ideal way to pass a command into bconsole and get the results to shell. I
>> found this very useful at times, particularly when issuing the messages
>> command as they scroll much slower in bconsole than in shell.
>>
>> issuing the command with the | in it is not convenient or fast when typing,
>> so I wanted to create an alias to handle this. The problem was that the pipe
>> '|' would break the alias command as normally written.
>>
>> Placing the following text into your .bashrc file will create the function
>> BconCommand and alias it to bcon, which will allow you to pass in quote
>> encapsulated commands to bconsole and get the results back to your ssh
>> terminal a little faster and easier.
>>
>>
>> alias bcon=BconCommand
>> function BconCommand()
>> {
>> echo $1 | bconsole
>> }
>>
>>
>> usage:
>> bcon 'list clients'
>> bcon 'list jobs'
>> bcon 'list jobid=2551'
>>
> Why didn't you just do:
> $ function bcon
> {
> echo $* | bconsole
> }
>
> Which means it's just:
> $ bcon list media
> $ bcon status dir
> etcetera.
I was going to say the same thing. Why get an alias involved just to
add a layer of abstraction when one isn't needed?
Also remember that you will need to export the function:
function bcon
{
echo $* | bconsole
}
export -f bcon
Is your alias possibly because your function was *not* exported? In
which case, don't do a hacky workaround for what you didn't do, just
export it properly in the first place.
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